Like this?
sysuse auto,clear
graph hbar mpg trunk turn, over(rep78, relabel(1 `""A Very Very Very"
"Very Long Label""'))
Scott
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm generating a large number of graphs, all of which are
> horizontal bar graphs:
>
> graph hbar var1 var2, over(group)
>
> My problem is that several -group- category labels are quite
> long, so that the figure is compressed to the right to make
> room.
>
> Ideally (that is, rather than chopping down and/or footnoting)
> there would be a way to wrap these labels into two lines. Since
> each -group- value has two bars, there is plenty of space for
> two lines of text; however, I cannot find a way to wrap the
> text, even if I manually break it up into fragments. Any
> ideas?
>
> By the way, I have tried shrinking the labels:
>
> graph hbar var1 var2, over(group, label(labsize(small)))
>
> but this doesn't solve the problem (and doesn't look very good).
>
> thanks,
> Jeph
>
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